Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
Fedora 7, How do I love thee?
Oh joy, I finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade to Fedora 7 on my laptop. I was really nervous because my previous experience upgrading from Fedora Core 5 to FC6 was harrowing at best. Lots of errors and other junk happened back then.
But this…. this –was flawless. So simple, so [...]
fnotify Revisited - irssi has a message for you
I’ve debated this for some time. How long should it be to be notified of an instant message (IM), or private message (PM), or someone saying your name in internet relay chat (IRC)? I’ve still not answered this question, but I’ve got at least a tool that will help you when irssi receives [...]
rtorrent - The Options
A little over a week and a half ago, I wrote an introduction to rtorrent that covered the basic functionality of rtorrent. This tutorial should have made it easier for those of you out there to use my favorite torrent client.
Because I love rtorrent so much, I thought I’d share a simple way to [...]
Fedora 7 Disk Labels and more
I’ve been curious lately as to how I could print labels for my Fedora 7 DVDs. Because I am officially a Fedora Ambassador for Utah, I would like to give out nice looking DVDs with labels on them. Well, I found a very nice lady who’s put up eps versions of such labels and I [...]
Fedora 7 is Live!
As of 8 AM MDT, Fedora 7 is available!
There are several to choose from so choose wisely. This Fedora is one of the largest undertakings by the Fedora Project. Here are just a few things you’ll get with Fedora 7:
CD Creation Tools - Build your own custom Fedora CD/DVD with its own rpms [...]
rtorrent - An introduction
Recently, I’ve been asked a few times how to use rtorrent so I thought it time to introduce it to others who might be interested in configuring my favorite bittorrent client.
First off, this is a Fedora tutorial, but much of what you’ll see in this tutorial is applicable to just about any Linux distro.
rtorrent is [...]
RAID 6 - Fedora Core 6
You’ve probably heard of RAID 0, RAID 1, and even RAID 5. But RAID 6?
What is Raid 6 you ask? Well, first we need to take a look at RAID 5 and understand how it works. If you understand RAID 5, then RAID 6 is an easy transition.
RAID 5 is what [...]
Thunderbird 2.0 - Fedora Core 6
So, I recently installed Thunderbird 2.0 on my Fedora Core 6 box. Here is what I did to get it working:
# yum –enablerepo=development list thunderbird
. . . snip . . .
Available Packages
thunderbird.i386 [...]
A man/less Trick
I regularly use man pages. I also regularly use less to view files I wanna read.
$ man vsftpd.conf
$ man named.conf
$ man less
$ less README
$ less CHANGES
and so on and so forth. But one of the most annoying things about the default setting to less. The one that I wonder what the [...]
Fedora People Rule!
I was visiting the Fedora People website when I ran across a post by Thorsten Leemhuis.
The content of the post was a quick way to set up notifications using libnotify when someone either shouts your name or says your nick in irssi. So I thought I’d give it a try. His is an [...]
